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LISTING FURNITURE IN HIS 1861 LONDON HOUSE
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DICKENS, CHARLES.Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, inventory of furnishings
[at 3 Hanover Terrace, London]. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank; faint scattered soiling,
folds. (MRS)
Np, [1861]
[2,000/3,000]
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China ornaments and small things removed from the Little Room at the end of the Passage are in
the kitchen.
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The large chair from the back dining room is in Miss Hogarth’s room.
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The round washing stand from the back best Bedroom is in my Dressing Room. . . .
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I think that a little round table in my bedroom was removed from somewhere else, and also a little
claw table in the Drawing Room. . . .”
From February to May of 1861, Dickens rented a furnished room in London in order to be near his
daughter.
WITH
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Charles Dickens. His printed Gad’s Hill Place visiting card, unsigned, inscribed with holo-
graph address at lower edge: “Office of ‘All the Year Round’ 26 Wellington Street W.C.” 1
1
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4
x3
inches; faint scattered staining, remnants of prior mounting at center verso.